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Do you know any mystery shopping company who pays quick less than a month? Mostly of my companies pay 60 to 120 days. Thank you.

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No. All the shops I have worked with also take 60 - 120 days to pay. Regardless of what they say on their website. In addition, they don't bother to indicate what shop they are paying you for when they do pay.

I call or email the shops to request payment. Funny how they want timely reporting but pay in an untimely manner <sigh>. If you come across any shops paying within 30 days please share them with the rest of us.

Market Force pays next month.

GFK, Research Services Group, ICCDS, EPMS, Shoppers Inc. are some of the companies that pay within 30 days.,

Things sure are different in Canada. Most companies I work with pay in 30 to 60 days and all pay within the terms stated on their website. It also seems many include a breakdown of which assignments are included in each payment.

miniguru123 Wrote:
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> No. All the shops I have worked with also take 60
> - 120 days to pay. Regardless of what they say on
> their website. In addition, they don't bother to
> indicate what shop they are paying you for when
> they do pay.
>
> I call or email the shops to request payment.
> Funny how they want timely reporting but pay in an
> untimely manner . If you come across any shops
> paying within 30 days please share them with the
> rest of us.

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Measure Consumer Perspective and Technology Shopper? I think it's called. They pay in like 2-3 weeks.

Floating around like a feather hoping the wind will set me down somewhere awesome.

miniguru123 Wrote:
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> In addition, they don't bother to
> indicate what shop they are paying you for when
> they do pay. >>>>>>>

That seems like a shop payment waiting to be missed. Might be a good reason to have all your information intact so when a payment is received.

QAMS and FB+ pays the next week, depending on the shop.

Bestmark and Cori/Stericycle pay weekly

I'm doing my first shop for Mintel today but the training check arrived within a week.

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Trendsource : 2 days, many times!

They pay faster than the tornado that chased Dorothy!

Hoju Wrote:
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> I'm doing my first shop for Mintel today but the
> training check arrived within a week.

Is this legit? Not sure about a training check?? Usually you get paid "after" you do the assignment but then again, this might be something special?

{I don't work for Mintel so just curious}

Naw it was legit. It's part of a program they're doing with trade shows. The training was a little bit of work. I'm not fronting any money so I'm not concerned.

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Trendsource pays the 5th and 20th of the month. If a shop is accepted on the 4th, it'll pay on the 5th.

Maritz pays twice a month, I think the 1st and 15th. I regularly get paid 10 days from shop completion. (Though this is starting to increase by a few days due to the vast number of shops they've taken on now, and a slight slow down in their editing)

Ritter is typically 30-60 days.

These are just a few. I would say most companies pay in the 30-60 day range, probably 80 of the 100 companies I regularly shop with.

Measure actually pays once a month around the fifteenth.

Maritz, Informa research, Market Force, Research Services group, CORI/STERI, Measure Consumer Perspectives, Monterey

Technology Store Shopper pays within a week or two weeks.

Hoju Wrote:
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> I'm doing my first shop for Mintel today but the
> training check arrived within a week.

I did a few cell phone text messages for Mintel and they paid in 10 days.

Thank you all for the informations and updates. This will help me a lot to augment my income. My objective is to earn atleast $1000 a month doing mystery shopping and to receive pays in a bi weekly basis. I am in Canada, hopefully, those mentioned above are also Canadian Mystery Shopping Companies.

While $1,000 a month is a reasonably good goal, the biweekly pay isn't. Quicker paying does not necessarily mean higher-paying. Even though Stericycle/CORI pays weekly you may not actually see the money for as long as two and a half weeks. Bestmark actually pays twice a month and because of processing and waiting for a check it could easily be almost a month.

As you go along you will find it doesn't matter all that much because the payments will eventually be relatively steady. Since the beginning my income from one month is my budget for the following month. While you are building up your business don't necessarily avoid companies that take longer to pay, just avoid tying up too much money in reimbursements for those companies.

Take the time to familiarize yourself with each MSCs actual payment schedule. Often what is stated here is incorrect because someone does a shop on the 29th of the month for a MSC who pays on the 15th of the following month and mistakenly believes the company pays in two weeks. Think like a vendor and not an employee. Most vendors are paid once a month.

Trend Source pays the 5th and the 20th of each month. DCM pays within 3 days, but only have one job in my area.

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GFK paid me about two weeks after my shop.

I work for many companies but only two of them takes as long as 60 days (Confero and the company who does the Goodwill shops) so I do very little work for them. The rest are that month or the month after.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/01/2014 02:03PM by jpgilham.

i have been getting paid weekly by BESTMARK the past month, not sure if that is something new, as the policy says bi monthly.

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